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Introducing sustainability with an integrated science and literacy activity....
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Capturing Insects and Student Interest
First graders learn about unusual plants in their area in this multimodal investigation of carnivorous plants....
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Aquaponics: What a Way to Grow!
Fifth graders design systems for fish and plants while exploring human impacts on the environment....
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Fifth graders explore human impact on the blue crab population....
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Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K–12
Books published in 2015 that were selected by the NSTA/Children’s Book Council Joint Book Review Panel....
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Editor's Note: Understanding Human Impact
Science and Children’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue....
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Teaching Through Trade Books: Humans and the Earth
This column includes activities inspired by children’s literature. Elementary students are beginning to understand the Earth’s natural processes and humans’ impact on the Earth. Humans need the natural resources that the Earth produces, use the...
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The Early Years: Composting With Children
This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. This month’s issue introduces students to the concept of decomposition and the process of composting....
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Formative Assessment Probes: Is It Erosion or Weathering?
This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. The formative assessment probe in this month’s issue can be used as an initial elicitation before students are introduced to the formal concepts of weathering and erosion....
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What We Call Misconceptions May Be Necessary Stepping-Stones Toward Making Sense of the World
Have a sense-making conversation with your students to confront and correct their misconceptions....
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Science 101: Does the Earth Have Any Natural Ways to Adjust the CO<sub>2</sub> in the Atmosphere?
This column contains exercises to challenge content knowledge. This month's issue discusses ways to remove CO2 from the atmosphere....
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Science 102: This Month's Task: Disappearing Halves
Exercises to challenge content knowledge. This month's issue presents a new challenge and answers the Pen to Paper challenge from last month....
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Methods and Strategies: Beyond the Textbook—But Not Just "Hands-On"
This column provides ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This month’s issue discusses how to use high-quality informational texts to meet the Next Generation Science Standards....
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Engineering Encounters: The Cat in the Hat Builds Satellites
This column presents ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This month's issue shares information about a unit promoting scientific literacy and the engineering design process....
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What We Call Misconceptions May Be Necessary Stepping-Stones Toward Making Sense of the World
Have a sense-making conversation with your students to confront and correct their misconceptions....
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Exposing Hidden Energy Transfer With Inexpensive Thermal Imaging Cameras
Explore the conservation of energy and related topics with this now-affordable technology....
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Chemical Connections: A Problem-Based Learning, STEM Experience
Use the engineering design process to address the problem of clothing dye finding its way into watersheds....
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Outstanding Science Trade Books for Students K–12
Books published in 2015 and selected by the NSTA/Children’s Book Council Joint Book Review Panel....
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Assess students’ understanding of the engineering design process by having them build their own pinball machines....
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Design and build your own solar eye protection to explore the properties of light and learn how sunlight can damage eyes....
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Editor's Roundtable: Spreading the News—With Care!
Science Scope’s editor shares thoughts regarding the current issue....
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Everyday Engineering: Sitting Around Designing Chairs
This column provides an inside look at the marvels of engineering in everyday life. In this 5E–learning-cycle lesson, students use newspaper and tape to design and build a chair that is capable of supporting their weight....
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This column provides classic demonstrations and experiments with a new twist. The lesson described in this article is a structured inquiry during which students quantitatively measure the amount of charge transferred between two different materials....
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Teacher's Toolkit: A Framework for Cross-Disciplinary Engineering Projects
This column provides how-to strategies and practical advice for the science teacher. In this month’s issue the authors introduce the framework they use for engineering projects in the middle grades, describe the cross-disciplinary benefits of two h...
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Scope on Safety: Making the Grade on Safety
This column shares safety information for your classroom. This month’s issue discusses using a beginning-of-the-year safety assessment....
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Scope on the Skies: GRACE, GRAIL, and Gravity
This column focuses on astronomy throughout the year. This month’s issue discusses two NASA missions that were launched to get a better understanding of what lies beneath the surface of the Moon and the Earth. The missions, which each consist of a ...
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Teaching the science of energy, force, and motion through an engineering design challenge....
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The starlet sea anemone is an ideal tool for student inquiry....
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Using engineering design to connect classroom with community....